Democrats Provide a Counteroffer to GOP Cuts on Energy and Climate - NYTimes.com

It erases the House provision that would block EPA from using its budget to regulate greenhouse gases. It restores U.S. contributions to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. And it strikes the language forbidding Obama from hiring "czars" for climate change or green jobs or negotiators for global climate talks, such as Special Envoy Todd Stern.

"Such language has no place in a bill that is necessary to keep the government operating," the Senate committee said.